ADN to be disbanded

Following a summer of high inactivity, rumours have started to circulate about the future of Nationstates oldest and largest defender organisation, the Alliance Defence Network.

It is rumoured that Pope Hope, Director of the ADN, has announced plans to disband, and then refound the organisation under a different name, in order to ‘Bring life back into the defender world, and to once again unite freedom loving nations under one banner’

Founded in the summer of 2003 in response to the Atlantic Alliance invader group, the ADN has become one of the most well known and influential organisations to have graced NS. Despite consisting of a number of high profile member regions, including The Youngworld, The Rejected Realms and Nasicournia, the organisation has had its fair share of critics, who often state that despite their size, they can be quite incompetent out on the field. Others state that the only thing the ADN really care about is to expand their political influence across NS, which has dwindled following their bout of inactivity this last year.

These concerns have been echoed by a number of different nations, ranging from raiders to defenders, who have stated that The ADN are all about expanding their power and influence, wanting more puppet regions to add to their collection.

Pope Hope has stressed however that this new organisation will be different due to more emphasis being placed upon regional and national sovereignty, allowing nations to be as active or inactive as they wish, with all military matters being kept under sole control of the regional leaders. She has stated that the new organisation will be ‘more of a pooling of information and resources’

However questions have been raised as to how this new organisation will be any different to its predecessor if the current members of the ADN are the ones who are set to create it.

The idea has been universally slammed by many critics of the ADN as just a cover and that nothing will change, with many just seeing it as a re-branded version of the ADN, however its supporters are of the opinion that this will be an opportunity to begin again.